I suppose if you're this surprised to see it, then it would be
considered spam! In any case, the email you got has nothing to to with
Apache.
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This year, Oracle has donated the registered trademarks and domain names
associated with openoffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
along with providing a Software Grant Agreement licensing the majority
of the source code for the OpenOffice.org product under the permissive
Apache License to the ASF.
The linked article on ITWorld is a very important read. Team OpenOffice
e.V. is an organization in Germany of developers who had worked in the
prior OpenOffice.org project that Sun/Oracle ran in the past. Team
OpenOffice.org e.V. has no relationship with the ASF nor with the Apache
OpenOffice podling, and any statements that they make that imply
ownership or control currently of the OpenOffice.org domain or software
product should be disregarded.
As you can see right here on the ooo-users@ list and elsewhere, the
Apache OpenOffice podling - undergoing Incubation here at the ASF - is
doing well and is moving forward at creating some great new software
based on the OpenOffice.org code that millions have used in the past,
and plan to create a new product to be called Apache OpenOffice quite soon.
In particular, users should know that any financial donations they may
choose to make to Team OpenOffice.org e.V. have no bearing or
relationship to the current OpenOffice.org product, and are completely
unrelated to the workings of the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice podling.
Users who are interested in supporting future Apache OpenOffice
development - or even better documentation, support options, or other
features on the openoffice.org domain are welcome to either participate
in the Apache OpenOffice project - just ask your questions or send
suggestions to the mailing list - or are welcome to make a donation to
the ASF as a whole at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html
Since the ASF and the Apache OpenOffice podling plan to maintain the
openoffice.org domain and legacy of a great end-user product for the
foreseeable future, I find it hard to understand why Team OpenOffice.org
e.V. continues to insinuate that OpenOffice.org is dying, and continues
to mislead consumers as to the current owner of the OpenOffice.org
brand: the ASF and the Apache OpenOffice podling.
This is especially disturbing given that they're using the good name of
a new Apache podling in a fundraising effort for their own coffers.
Thanks for the report of this (spam) email!
- Shane Curcuru
Apache OpenOffice Mentor
Vice President, Brand Management, The Apache Software Foundation
On 2011-12-16 10:42 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 16/12/11 14:59, Mike Scott wrote:
I assume the mail I've just received, subject text "only a few more
days!", is spam. It starts:
"Team OpenOffice.org e. V.
This is the happiest time of the year!
Christmas time with Team OpenOffice.org – gifts included!
.....
Apologies for following up my own mail. I had one off-list reply to the
effect that "I would be rather surprised if this was not totally ok. Now
that Oracle has got out, another organization needed to be created, and
thesis it." (Please, everyone, can stuff be kept on-list unless there's
good reason otherwise?)
However, I've also found the web page
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/213997/apache-disavows-team-openofficeorg-ev
(mind the wrap) which is an interesting read.
Since the email was sent direct to me, not via any subscribed list, I
guess it is spam, pure and simple. I'm forwarding a complaint to the
relevant ISP.
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